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Power to represent arrears to be levied as sums originally presented.
Arrears, &c. and surplus monies shall be applicable to general purposes of county.
Affidavit of arrears before re-presentment.
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145. It shall be lawful for any grand jury to re-present any such sums of money as now are or at any time hereafter shall be unpaid or in arrear out of any denomination, barony, or county of a city or town, to be raised and levied on such denomination, barony, county of a city or town, upon which the same was originally required by the treasurer’s warrant to be levied; and to present all such sums of money which have hitherto been or which shall at any time here-after remain unpaid on account of the absconding or insolvency of any county treasurer, collector, or other person empowered to receive or collect public money, who is or shall be insolvent, to be raised and levied either upon the county or upon the barony in which the same was before levied, as they shall think fit; which sums shall be levied in the same manner and subject to the same rules, regulations, provisions, and powers, as any money to be levied by virtue of this act is to be subject; and in case any money so detained or secreted by any collector, treasurer, or other person empowered to collect or receive public money shall be thereafter recovered, it shall be paid to the then treasurer; and such money so paid, and any balance, arrears of, or surplus on the salary of any county officer, and all other such like surplus and balances of money raised by authority of this Act, or which may anyhow arise in the hands of any county treasurer, shall be applicable to defray the expenses of any public work or any county charge whatsoever which the grand jury are authorized to present under the provisions of this Act, and shall be presented by the grand jury for such of the said purposes as to them shall seem expedient; provided always, that such sum shall be applied to the credit of any county or barony off which it was originally levied; and provided further, that before it shall be lawful for any grand jury to re-present any sum of money as unpaid or in arrear out of any county or barony or denomination, to be raised and levied on such county or barony or denomination, it shall be made to appear, by affidavit of the collector, to such grand jury, that such sum is actually in arrear and unpaid by such county or barony or denomination respectively, and that it could not have been levied from the persons or out of the lands charged with or liable to pay the same.
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